PRITE CORRECT EXAMS ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS
SET A+
✔✔Electroconvulsive therapy is indicated for which of the following conditions?
A) Dissociative fugue
B) Serotonin syndrome
C) Intermittent explosive disorder
D) OCD
E) NMS - ✔✔E) NMS
✔✔Which white matter tracts connects the temporal and orbitofrontal cortices? -
✔✔Uncinate fasiculus
✔✔Cingulum - ✔✔Connects frontal, temporal, and parietal lobes and also subcortical
nuclei to cingulate gyrus
✔✔Arcuate fasiculus - ✔✔Connects Wernicke's and Brocas
✔✔Inferior longitudinal fasciculus - ✔✔Connects occipital and temporal lobes
✔✔Superior longitudinal fasciculus - ✔✔Connects frontal lobe and ipsilateral
hemisphere
✔✔The Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium dosing guidelines for
antidepressants are based on genetic variations in _______. - ✔✔CYP450 enzymes
✔✔Which molecular mechanism is best supported as a possible explanation for how
early life stress could lead to the development of psychiatric disorders in adulthood? -
✔✔DNA methylation
✔✔Postpartum depression has been consistently associated with which outcome in
children? - ✔✔Infant growth impairment
,✔✔A patient is convinced that their boss hates them, despite objective evidence to the
contrary. The patient's belief is best described by which defense mechanism? -
✔✔Projection
(attributing one's own unacceptable thoughts/feelings/motives onto another person)
✔✔Denial - ✔✔Blocking external events from awareness
✔✔Introjection - ✔✔Unconscious adoption of ideas/attitudes of others
✔✔Repression - ✔✔Involuntarily blocking upsetting feelings from entering
consciousness
✔✔Reaction formation - ✔✔Behaving in a manner opposite of one's feelings
✔✔According to cognitive theory, which type of maladaptive schemas are generally
most prominent in depressive disorders? - ✔✔Negative evaluations of self
✔✔Instrumental aggression is associated with which disorder? - ✔✔Antisocial
personality disorder
✔✔During what stage of sleep do sleep spindles (12-14 Hz bursts) occur? - ✔✔N2
✔✔A patient presents with long term fluctuating neurologic symptoms which include
frequent falls, weakness, numbness of extremities, and blurred vision. Which of the
following diagnostic procedures would be most helpful in determining the diagnosis? -
✔✔MRI
✔✔What finding would be most useful in distinguishing a non-epileptic event from
epileptic seizures? - ✔✔Resistance to attempted eye opening during seizures
✔✔__________ acts as an obligate co-agonist with glutamate at the NMDA receptor. -
✔✔Glycine
✔✔Individuals with high penetrance variants are best studied using which approach? -
✔✔Pedigree analysis
✔✔What is the suggested mechanism by which EEG-based biofeedback reduces
severity of PTSD symptoms? - ✔✔Change in functional connectivity patterns in resting
state neural networks.
, ✔✔A patient is asked to draw a clock. After drawing a circle outlining the clock face, the
patient does not add numbers or hands, but instead continues to trace the circle over
and over again. This is an example of what? - ✔✔Perseveration
✔✔A psychiatrist committed to providing mental health services to underserved
populations accept a position working within a clinical setting that integrates mental
health services with primary care. The acceptance of this job best exemplifies fulfillment
of what ethical principle? - ✔✔Justice
✔✔According to Margaret Mahler, during which phase do children have a greater
awareness of separateness from their caregiver and play an active role in regulating
their approach to the caregiver. - ✔✔Rapprochement
✔✔Agonism of what serotonin receptors is associated with the effective treatment of
migraine headaches? - ✔✔5-HT1B
✔✔Which brain region is primarily involved in the long term storage of verbal semantic
memory? - ✔✔Inferior lateral temporal lobes
✔✔A mutation in which gene is the most common cause of Rett syndrome? - ✔✔Methyl
CpG binding protein (MECP2)
✔✔A patient experiences an unprecipitated panic attack while in the grocery store.
Subsequently, when their spouse asks them to go to the grocery store, the patient
experiences tachycardia, sweating, and an overwhelming sense of anxiety. In this
scenario, which of the following terms describes the role of the grocery store? -
✔✔Conditioned stimulus
✔✔A 21-year old patient is hospitalized for excessive bleeding following an induced first
trimester abortion. The obstetrician requests psychiatric consultation to evaluate the
patient for depression. The patient reports some anxiety about the bleeding, but says
she is relieved about the abortion itself. She indicates that her relationship with the man
she has been involved with is abusive, yet she is not in a position emotionally or
economically to raise a child by herself. In evaluating the patient, it is most important to
be aware of what ________. - ✔✔The strongest predictor of depression after elective
abortion is a history of pre-pregnancy depression.
✔✔A patient with a diagnosis of Huntington's disease develops signs and symptoms of
this condition at a younger age than the patient's parent had. What is the genetic
mechanism for this phenomenon? - ✔✔Anticipation
✔✔A 34 year old patient with terminal lung cancer is admitted for difficulty breathing and
increased pain. the patient reports a depressed mood, poor appetite, fatigue, and
impaired concentration. Death is not imminent, but the prognosis is less than three
SET A+
✔✔Electroconvulsive therapy is indicated for which of the following conditions?
A) Dissociative fugue
B) Serotonin syndrome
C) Intermittent explosive disorder
D) OCD
E) NMS - ✔✔E) NMS
✔✔Which white matter tracts connects the temporal and orbitofrontal cortices? -
✔✔Uncinate fasiculus
✔✔Cingulum - ✔✔Connects frontal, temporal, and parietal lobes and also subcortical
nuclei to cingulate gyrus
✔✔Arcuate fasiculus - ✔✔Connects Wernicke's and Brocas
✔✔Inferior longitudinal fasciculus - ✔✔Connects occipital and temporal lobes
✔✔Superior longitudinal fasciculus - ✔✔Connects frontal lobe and ipsilateral
hemisphere
✔✔The Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium dosing guidelines for
antidepressants are based on genetic variations in _______. - ✔✔CYP450 enzymes
✔✔Which molecular mechanism is best supported as a possible explanation for how
early life stress could lead to the development of psychiatric disorders in adulthood? -
✔✔DNA methylation
✔✔Postpartum depression has been consistently associated with which outcome in
children? - ✔✔Infant growth impairment
,✔✔A patient is convinced that their boss hates them, despite objective evidence to the
contrary. The patient's belief is best described by which defense mechanism? -
✔✔Projection
(attributing one's own unacceptable thoughts/feelings/motives onto another person)
✔✔Denial - ✔✔Blocking external events from awareness
✔✔Introjection - ✔✔Unconscious adoption of ideas/attitudes of others
✔✔Repression - ✔✔Involuntarily blocking upsetting feelings from entering
consciousness
✔✔Reaction formation - ✔✔Behaving in a manner opposite of one's feelings
✔✔According to cognitive theory, which type of maladaptive schemas are generally
most prominent in depressive disorders? - ✔✔Negative evaluations of self
✔✔Instrumental aggression is associated with which disorder? - ✔✔Antisocial
personality disorder
✔✔During what stage of sleep do sleep spindles (12-14 Hz bursts) occur? - ✔✔N2
✔✔A patient presents with long term fluctuating neurologic symptoms which include
frequent falls, weakness, numbness of extremities, and blurred vision. Which of the
following diagnostic procedures would be most helpful in determining the diagnosis? -
✔✔MRI
✔✔What finding would be most useful in distinguishing a non-epileptic event from
epileptic seizures? - ✔✔Resistance to attempted eye opening during seizures
✔✔__________ acts as an obligate co-agonist with glutamate at the NMDA receptor. -
✔✔Glycine
✔✔Individuals with high penetrance variants are best studied using which approach? -
✔✔Pedigree analysis
✔✔What is the suggested mechanism by which EEG-based biofeedback reduces
severity of PTSD symptoms? - ✔✔Change in functional connectivity patterns in resting
state neural networks.
, ✔✔A patient is asked to draw a clock. After drawing a circle outlining the clock face, the
patient does not add numbers or hands, but instead continues to trace the circle over
and over again. This is an example of what? - ✔✔Perseveration
✔✔A psychiatrist committed to providing mental health services to underserved
populations accept a position working within a clinical setting that integrates mental
health services with primary care. The acceptance of this job best exemplifies fulfillment
of what ethical principle? - ✔✔Justice
✔✔According to Margaret Mahler, during which phase do children have a greater
awareness of separateness from their caregiver and play an active role in regulating
their approach to the caregiver. - ✔✔Rapprochement
✔✔Agonism of what serotonin receptors is associated with the effective treatment of
migraine headaches? - ✔✔5-HT1B
✔✔Which brain region is primarily involved in the long term storage of verbal semantic
memory? - ✔✔Inferior lateral temporal lobes
✔✔A mutation in which gene is the most common cause of Rett syndrome? - ✔✔Methyl
CpG binding protein (MECP2)
✔✔A patient experiences an unprecipitated panic attack while in the grocery store.
Subsequently, when their spouse asks them to go to the grocery store, the patient
experiences tachycardia, sweating, and an overwhelming sense of anxiety. In this
scenario, which of the following terms describes the role of the grocery store? -
✔✔Conditioned stimulus
✔✔A 21-year old patient is hospitalized for excessive bleeding following an induced first
trimester abortion. The obstetrician requests psychiatric consultation to evaluate the
patient for depression. The patient reports some anxiety about the bleeding, but says
she is relieved about the abortion itself. She indicates that her relationship with the man
she has been involved with is abusive, yet she is not in a position emotionally or
economically to raise a child by herself. In evaluating the patient, it is most important to
be aware of what ________. - ✔✔The strongest predictor of depression after elective
abortion is a history of pre-pregnancy depression.
✔✔A patient with a diagnosis of Huntington's disease develops signs and symptoms of
this condition at a younger age than the patient's parent had. What is the genetic
mechanism for this phenomenon? - ✔✔Anticipation
✔✔A 34 year old patient with terminal lung cancer is admitted for difficulty breathing and
increased pain. the patient reports a depressed mood, poor appetite, fatigue, and
impaired concentration. Death is not imminent, but the prognosis is less than three
